KENOSHA, Wis. — Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson says Republican Gov. Scott Walker provided a "marginal amount of moderation to an extreme Tea Party budget" with some of the vetoes he made to the spending plan signed Sunday.
Larson says Walker's veto of a provision that would have allowed bounty hunters, or bail bondsmen, in Wisconsin for the first time since 1979 "may have eliminated the most obvious example of corruption in this budget."
But Larson says there are other problems with the budget, including the lowest per pupil spending increase in 20 years.
The budget includes a $300 million spending increase for public schools, but Democrats say that doesn't even make up for all the cuts to public education in Walker's previous budget.
